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256: Types, Tools, and Turbo Charging

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News includes the Elixir 1.19 RC release featuring up to 4x faster compilation and significant types system improvements, more ElixirConfEU videos including José Valim's keynote on type system updates, the look at the Backpex admin panel for Phoenix LiveView applications, Ash AI's impressive AI integration using the Elixir LangChain library, an informal Elixir Contributors Summit recap from Software Mansion, the Quokka formatter that automatically fixes Credo style code issues, Popcorn's browser-based Elixir implementation with JavaScript interoperability, and the launch of Elixir Observer for better Hex package exploration, and more!

Show Notes online - http://podcast.thinkingelixir.com/256

Elixir Community News

https://www.honeybadger.io/ – Honeybadger.io is sponsoring today's show! Keep your apps healthy and your customers happy with Honeybadger! It's free to get started, and setup takes less than five minutes.
https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md – Elixir 1.19 RC release with up to 4x faster compilation for large projects, types system updates, and improved pretty printing
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z – ElixirConfEU videos playlist with all 4 keynotes and Lightning Talks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-ckmSt1gI&list=PLvL2NEhYV4Zu421KzHuLICUqieJXI2o_Z&index=13 – José Valim's keynote "Type System and Elixir Updates + Extended Q&A"
https://github.com/naymspace/backpex – Backpex - highly customizable administration panel for Phoenix LiveView applications
https://backpex.live/ – Backpex project landing page
https://demo.backpex.live/admin/users – Live demo of Backpex admin panel
https://hexdocs.pm/ash_ai/readme.html – Ash AI documentation - AI implementation for the Ash Framework
https://x.com/ZachSDaniel1/status/1927249155019149409 – Zach Daniel's tweet teasing Ash AI features
https://blog.swmansion.com/elixir-contributor-summit-2025-shaping-the-future-together-at-software-mansion-cc3271a188eb – Blog post about the informal Elixir Contributors Summit held after ElixirConf EU
https://github.com/smartrent/quokka – Quokka - Elixir formatter that combines mix format and mix credo to automatically fix code style issues
https://github.com/software-mansion/popcorn – Popcorn - library for running client-side Elixir in browsers with JavaScript interoperability
https://popcorn.swmansion.com/simple_repl/ – Popcorn live demo REPL
https://github.com/atomvm/AtomVM – AtomVM project that Popcorn is based on, compiles to WASM
https://www.mimiquate.com/blog/introducing-elixir-observer-a-better-way-to-explore-elixir-packages – Blog post introducing Elixir Observer for exploring Hex packages
https://elixir-observer.com/ – Elixir Observer website for package exploration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-FsRSDg6Pc – YouTube demo video of Elixir Observer
https://github.com/mimiquate/elixir_observer – Open source GitHub repository for Elixir Observer
https://elixir-observer.com/packages/ecto – Example of Ecto package analysis on Elixir Observer

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